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pov just switched back to Ce'Nedra. All she thinks about that we see is The Boy and clothes. She also receives religious instruction that is all about doing what you're told.
ick.
They've got a little boy with them, and he sits on her lap and she cuddles him and is overwhelmed with 'aw, cute!' And, okay, fair enough, that happens. But why does it only happen to the girl?
so then we get back to the central issue for her - she doesn't want to go to Riva, to be put on display in humiliation, or to the arranged marriage.
She says so.
The cute little boy looks at her and touches her lips and when she looks at the cute little boy she can't think straight and her feelings change and after a couple of minutes her driving compulsion is just... hugged away.
I think it's supposed to be funny.
It's *disgusting*. It's making me shudder. It's outright mind control, it's Jasmine and her happy inducement, it's rearranging the emotions of another sentient free willed being.
It's *grotesque*.
And I think it's meant to be funny.
The worst part is they're doing it instead of allowing her to make a free and informed decision. If they'd told her who she'd be meeting there, she could decide to go. But they won't tell her, because then the big plot surprise wouldn't be a surprise, even though it's not a surprise to any reader paying attention anyway. So instead she gets all twisted in the emotions by this little kid who all of a sudden is not so cute because cute mind control is not cute.
The whole section reads like what a man thinks would be going through a woman's mind. She says she hates Garion and then she ignores him, and *clearly* this is because she's in love. It's making me nauseous.
In my experience people mostly do things because they seem like the thing to do at the time. They're mostly too wrapped up in their own thing to be particularly concentrating on other people's reactions. I realise there are exceptions. So Ce'Nedra is a popularity contest sort, all about getting a reaction from other people. Fine. But in what world is that how to go about it? The good Boy-to-love-her reaction she's after, I mean. She's either really bad at it or people in this book do not work the way people I have observed work.
Stupid.
Also, someone asked for a love spell without it being pointed out that would be rape. It was said to be impossible, but the morally-wrong part was left out. I think that part is rather important.
I think in stories it is important to be clear that when people say no they mean no and when they say bugger off they mean bugger off and when they say I hate you they mean I hate you and they all get choices and if they choose to not get married they are in fact allowed. And by 'people' I pretty much mean 'women', because men don't seem to have the same problems... Hang on, Relg is saying bugger off, but apparently meaning come here. Okay, so that's a problem for both genders. It's really messed up either way.
I know people are complicated and change their mind, but this idea that bugger off secretly means try harder just messes things up. Seriously.
pov just switched back to Ce'Nedra. All she thinks about that we see is The Boy and clothes. She also receives religious instruction that is all about doing what you're told.
ick.
They've got a little boy with them, and he sits on her lap and she cuddles him and is overwhelmed with 'aw, cute!' And, okay, fair enough, that happens. But why does it only happen to the girl?
so then we get back to the central issue for her - she doesn't want to go to Riva, to be put on display in humiliation, or to the arranged marriage.
She says so.
The cute little boy looks at her and touches her lips and when she looks at the cute little boy she can't think straight and her feelings change and after a couple of minutes her driving compulsion is just... hugged away.
I think it's supposed to be funny.
It's *disgusting*. It's making me shudder. It's outright mind control, it's Jasmine and her happy inducement, it's rearranging the emotions of another sentient free willed being.
It's *grotesque*.
And I think it's meant to be funny.
The worst part is they're doing it instead of allowing her to make a free and informed decision. If they'd told her who she'd be meeting there, she could decide to go. But they won't tell her, because then the big plot surprise wouldn't be a surprise, even though it's not a surprise to any reader paying attention anyway. So instead she gets all twisted in the emotions by this little kid who all of a sudden is not so cute because cute mind control is not cute.
The whole section reads like what a man thinks would be going through a woman's mind. She says she hates Garion and then she ignores him, and *clearly* this is because she's in love. It's making me nauseous.
In my experience people mostly do things because they seem like the thing to do at the time. They're mostly too wrapped up in their own thing to be particularly concentrating on other people's reactions. I realise there are exceptions. So Ce'Nedra is a popularity contest sort, all about getting a reaction from other people. Fine. But in what world is that how to go about it? The good Boy-to-love-her reaction she's after, I mean. She's either really bad at it or people in this book do not work the way people I have observed work.
Stupid.
Also, someone asked for a love spell without it being pointed out that would be rape. It was said to be impossible, but the morally-wrong part was left out. I think that part is rather important.
I think in stories it is important to be clear that when people say no they mean no and when they say bugger off they mean bugger off and when they say I hate you they mean I hate you and they all get choices and if they choose to not get married they are in fact allowed. And by 'people' I pretty much mean 'women', because men don't seem to have the same problems... Hang on, Relg is saying bugger off, but apparently meaning come here. Okay, so that's a problem for both genders. It's really messed up either way.
I know people are complicated and change their mind, but this idea that bugger off secretly means try harder just messes things up. Seriously.